Fall meetings

[grassfarmer]

How predictable the responses have been - resorting to categorizing everything as either "leftie" or "free enterprise". As always in western Canadian the facts are negotiable as long as the ideology stands. You kid yourselves though as without your Government funded crop insurance very few of you could even be in the game. You can cry all you like about the weather, prices, the guys trying to screw you over but there is not a lot of sympathy for you in the world. An aging demographic, asset rich but if the kids don't want to follow you how sustainable is it?
Another day, another story that doesn't help your cause:
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/

On the other hand I know several people attending the meeting in Halifax, all young self made farmers, innovators and entrepreneurs. They are the real free marketeers. They are the future of agriculture because they are building bridges with consumers and others in society. Interested in food security, food quality, consumer demand, the environment, water. Such talent, such information sharing, such potential. They have got you beaten before you even realize there is a race going on.

[sumdumguy]

GF, I wish I wasn't clear across this fine continent. I would love to get some fresh air. There is nothing so invigorating and stimulatiing as fresh ideas. In Saskatoon, there used to be a show every year ( i forget the name of it) that presented new ideas like turning potatoe production into a perogy enterprise, today huge company. Greenhouse business exporting to Northern US. The former federal government used to support this kind of dialogue. Now they just support railways, big chemical, machinery companies and agronomists squeezing every frickin cent out of farmers. No thought, no imagination, no adventure.